Improved road-making device



T. T. BARBER.

ROAD MAKING DEVICE.

N0. 49,693. Patented Sept. 5, 1865,

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THOMAS 'r. BAREEB, or HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT.

lMPROVED ROAD-MAKlNG DEVlCE.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,693, dated September 5, 1865.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS 'l. BARBER, of the town of Hampton, in the county of Windhaul and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Making Roads; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction, cha:acter, and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which makes part of this specification, which drawing is aperspective view of the whole apparatus.

My improvement consists in making an apparatus for road-making composed of draftgear, plows, scrapers, and barrow, with. all the convenient appendages, included in one article, so that with a team of sufficient strength the ground maybe plowed, along the two sides of the road,) scraped regularly crowning to the center, and the central part smoothed, all by once passing over the road.

I make the draft-gear or wheel part of two truck-wheels, A A, of suitable diameter for convenience of drawing, and also in some degree for gaging the plows, with a suitable axle-tree, 13, and tongue or pole U, and two cross-bars, l) and E E, by which to guide the plows, 85c, all as shown in the drawing.

1 make the gangs of plows, as shown at a a, &c., of a suitable shape and structure, and tit or secure them in suitable stocks or beams, as F and F, in such a position that each will turn its furrow in ward or toward the center of the road, having the beams F and F so adjusted that the forward plow on each beam will be nearest to the center of the road, all as shown and indicated in the drawing.

I make the double scraper of two suitable beams or sides, G and H, and secure them together by suitable bars or braces, as I, K, L, and M, or by any other suitable means, so as to hold them firmly in theirinclined relation to each other, and I arrange their incline and length so that the two beams will form sub stantially the two sides ot' an equilateral triangle. with a smaltportion of the apex removed and the part which would be the base left open, as the forward end, all substantially as shown in the drawing. 1 make the front or flaring and wide enough for the part of the road to be worked so as to scrape Trom the extreme outside to near the center at one operation or passage of the team. 7

On the inner side, and toward the lower edge of each of the beams G and 11,1 fit a suitable end of the other is shown at P on the beam H. I make these scrapers of long plates of steel or any other suitable material, and secure them to beams by screws or by any other proper and efficient means. Upon eachof these beams I attach a roller, as b, (the otherleing ooncealed,) which I work by a lever, as c or (I, to raise up each side of the scraper, when desired, to leave the dirt, pass over stones, or when it is not.desired to use the scraper, 85c. Theselevers may be worked by hand, ormay be secured at any desired position by the pins at d and 0. These levers work on joint or fulcrum pins, as indicated at n, on lever c.

1 make the harrow of four bars or beams, as 1 ST U, and connect the two outer bars, it and U, with a vertically-curved cross-bar, V, and secure them to theinner pair by ajoiut pin, g, on which they work freely, to avoid bad efi'ects from stones or other impediments.

Having made the several parts as before described, I attach the rear ends of the plowbeains F and F to the front ends of the scraperbcams G and H by joint-pins, as shown at h and h, and I attach the draft-wheels A and A (and their appendages) to the front ends of the plow-beams F and F by having the beams in.- tercept, and having a chain or other flexible connection attached to the linksl and t in the front ends of the plow-beams F and F and pass freely through a loop, an, under the pole or tongue 0; and I connect the barrow by means as shown at W, when the whole will be ready for use, as shown in the drawing.

To use this road-making apparatus 1 hitch the oxen (as many as are needed) to the pole or tongue and draw the whole forwardgwhmi the plows will plow up the soil near the two sides'of the road, (turning the furrows inward or toward the center of the road,) and the scrapers N and 1 will follow in such a manner that their front ends will enter the two outward furrows, and asthey converge toward their rear scraper, as 1!, on the beain'G, and the front of a flexible cord or chain of suitable length,

ends will scrape the loose dirt. or soil to the whole is constructed and fitted for use substan center of the road, and the harr'ow smooth or tielly as herein described and set forth.

level the central part of the road, so that it 2. The combination of the scrapers with the will bent to use immediately after the passage barrow, when both are constructed, con nected,

of the apparatus. and fitted to produce the result of scraping and hen the road needs deeper plowing than leveling, substantially as herein described and can be done at one operation it may be repeated set forth.

as often as it is required. I

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to THOMAS BARBER secure by Letters Patent, is- Witnesses:

l. Thccom bination of the two gangs of plows PATRICK H. PEARL, and the draft-gear with the scrapers, when the L. W. BoYN'roNt 

